McLaren Formula 1 driver Lando Norris said he can now be more "chill" about his points gap to title rival Oscar Piastri, suggesting he isn't convinced he can turn it around without outside factors intervening.

The McLaren MCL39 expiring in a puff of smoke on lap 65 of 72 in the Dutch Grand Prix cost Norris a nailed-on 18 points, dropping him to 34 back from Piastri.

It's the largest the gap has been all season, and the first time it's ticked over not just the 33-point mark (a full points haul from a grand prix weekend) but even the 25-point mark (a full points haul from a non-sprint grand prix).

Given the cost of the failure to his championship aspirations, Norris was already relatively sanguine in his reaction to race engineer Will Joseph as he parked up at the side of the road, hardly raising his tone of voice.

LN: Oil leak. I'm out. Failure. [swearing]
WJ: OK.
WJ: Can you bring it back?
LN: I'm out, I'm out.
LN: No, no. It's gone. [swearing]
WJ: OK.
WJ: Sorry, mate. You were fast today, you were really fast.
LN: Yeah... It doesn't matter, mate.
WJ: I know. But you were fast.
LN: I know, I know. Unlucky, boys. Unlucky.

It was a reaction that team boss Andrea Stella said showed Norris "immediately kept his constructive mindset".

And Norris's post-race debrief with the media went along the same lines, as he acknowledged it was "just not my weekend", given also the narrow, wind-affected defeat in qualifying.

"Tough one, of course it's frustrating, it hurts a bit, it hurts for sure in the championship point of view, it's a lot of points to lose so quickly and so easily," Norris said.